Lots of snows around this last week. This one was to young to fly when banded on 7/31/2017 in Alaska but made it down to central California on 11/9/17 or earlier. Pretty amazing what these birds do with their migration. Maybe they are replacing neck collars with these fancy leg bands now.

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Lots of snows around this last week. This one was to young to fly when banded on 7/31/2017 in Alaska but made it down to central California on 11/9/17 or earlier. Pretty amazing what these birds do with their migration. Maybe they are replacing neck collars with these fancy leg bands now.